Tara Donovan: Vertical Poetry

Tara Donovan?s newest wall sculptures at Pace Gallery are composed of THOUSANDS of white styrene cards that are individually stacked, glued, and rotated 90 degrees. It?s simple. It’s also the most breathtaking thing I?ve seen on a wall all year.
Tara Donovan. ?Composition (Cards)? 2017
Tara Donovan. Detail of ?Composition (Cards)? 2017
Each of the 30 works in the gallery feels absolutely impossible ? the mathematics, the labor, and the result. A closer look reveals the inhuman complexity and precision of overlap. These are not short pieces sandwiched between “full length” strips. The white areas are overlaps ? like a deck of cards mid shuffle. ONE of these is unbelievable ? but hitting 30 works in a row, each with entirely unique patterns and rules of construction, is mind-blowing.
Installation view of Tara Donovan, at Pace Gallery, 527 West 24th Street
Tara Donovan. ?Composition (Cards)? 2017
Tara Donovan. ?Composition (Cards)? 2017
Tara Donovan. Detail of ?Composition (Cards)? 2017
This exhibition follows her 2014 show at Pace Gallery, in which she created towering stalagmites using the same material. Both the material and the ?stacking? remains in these new works, but with 2 turns (viewing cards only from their ?edge?, and rotating the finished work 90 degrees vertical), Donovan has created something entirely new.
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